Software Engineer - Backend

Position-Tech Lead

Experience: 8-10

Job Location: Pune 

We are seeking a highly skilled Tech Lead with strong expertise in Java, microservices architecture, and cloud-native application development. The ideal candidate will bring hands-on leadership experience in designing scalable solutions, guiding development teams, and collaborating with DevOps engineers on OpenShift (OCP) platforms. This role requires a blend of technical leadership, solution design, and delivery ownership.

Key Responsibilities

Lead the design and development of Java / Spring Boot based microservices in a cloud-native environment.

Provide technical leadership to a team of developers, ensuring adherence to coding, security, and architectural best practices.

Collaborate with architects and DevOps engineers to deploy and manage microservices on Red Hat OpenShift (OCP).

Oversee end-to-end delivery including requirement analysis, design, development, code review, testing, and deployment.

Define and implement API specifications, integration patterns, and microservices orchestration.

Work closely with DevOps teams to integrate CI/CD pipelines, containerized deployments, Helm, and GitOps workflows.

Ensure application performance, scalability, and reliability with proactive observability practices (Grafana, Prometheus, etc.).

Required Skills & Qualifications

8-10 years of proven experience in Java application development with at least 4+ years in microservices architecture.

Strong expertise in Spring Boot, REST APIs, JPA/Hibernate, and messaging frameworks (Kafka, RabbitMQ, etc.).

Hands-on experience with containerization (Docker) and orchestration (OpenShift/Kubernetes).

Familiarity with OCP DevOps practices including CI/CD (ArgoCD, Tekton, Jenkins), Helm, and YAML deployments.

Good understanding of observability stacks (Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, Alertmanager) and logging practices.

Solid knowledge of cloud-native design principles, scalability, and fault tolerance.

Exposure to security best practices (OAuth, RBAC, secrets management via Vault or similar). 

Job Description

· Design technical specifications for RPA (Uipath) that meets the requirements and handled all the non functional requirements of concurrency, scalability, security requirements, restart and recovery.

· Develops and configures automation processes as per the technical design document to meet the defined requirements. Works on the coding the more complicated automations or reusable components, and delegates and mentors junior developers for the less complex components.

· Develops new processes/tasks/objects using core workflow principles that are efficient, well structured, maintainable and easy to understand.

· Complies with and helps to enforce design and coding standards, policies and procedures.

· Ensures documentation is well maintained.

· Ensures quality of coded components by performing thorough unit testing.

· Works collaboratively with test teams during the Product test and UAT phases to fix assigned bugs with quality.

· Reports status, issues and risks to tech leads on a regular basis

· Improves skills in automation products by completing automation certification.

· Mentors junior developers and performs code reviews for quality control.

Qualifications

Bachelor degree in Engineering / Computer Science

Additional Information

· 5- 8 years of IT experience and having good understanding of programming concepts. Should be from a programming background on any coding language (.Net, Java).

· Working experience in RPA for a minimum of 2 years and having project experience of a minimum 3 RPA implementations.

· Understands development methodology and lifecycle

· Should be trained on RPA tools (Uipath).

· Self-motivated, team player, action and results oriented.

· Well organized, good communication and reporting skills.

As an engineer, you will help with the implementation, and launch of many key product features. You will get an opportunity to work on a wide range of technologies (including Spring, AWS Elastic Search, Lambda, ECS, Redis, Spark, Kafka etc.) and apply new technologies for solving problems. You will have an influence on defining product features, drive operational excellence, and spearhead the best practices that enable a quality product. You will get to work with skilled and motivated engineers who are already contributing to building high-scale and high-available systems.

If you are looking for an opportunity to work on leading technologies and would like to build product technology that can cater millions of customers inclined towards providing them the best experience, and relish large ownership and diverse technologies, join our team today!

What You'll Do:

• Creating detailed design, working on development and performing code reviews.
• Implementing validation and support activities in line with architecture requirements
• Help the team translate the business requirements into R&D tasks and manage the roadmap of the R&D tasks.
• Designing, building, and implementation of the product; participating in requirements elicitation, validation of architecture, creation and review of high and low level design, assigning and reviewing tasks for product implementation.
• Work closely with product managers, UX designers and end users and integrating software components into a fully functional system
• Ownership of product/feature end-to-end for all phases from the development to the production.
• Ensuring the developed features are scalable and highly available with no quality concerns.
• Work closely with senior engineers for refining the and implementation.
• Management and execution against project plans and delivery commitments.
• Assist directly and indirectly in the continual hiring and development of technical talent.
• Create and execute appropriate quality plans, project plans, test strategies and processes for development activities in concert with business and project management efforts.

The ideal candidate is a passionate engineer about delivering experiences that delight customers and creating solutions that are robust. He/she should be able to commit and own the deliveries end-to-end.

What You'll Need:

• A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline.
• 2-3+ years of Software Development experience with proficiency in Java or equivalent object-oriented languages, coupled with design and SOA
• Fluency with Java, and Spring is good.
• Experience in JEE applications and frameworks like struts, spring, mybatis, maven, gradle
• Strong knowledge of Data Structures, Algorithms and CS fundamentals.
• Experience in at least one shell scripting language, SQL, SQL Server, PostgreSQL and data modeling skills
• Excellent analytical and reasoning skills
• Ability to learn new domains and deliver output
• Hands on Experience with the core AWS services
• Experience working with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, Spinnaker, Nexus, GitLab, TeamCity, GoCD, etc.)

• Expertise in at least one of the following:

    - Kafka, ZeroMQ, AWS SNS/SQS, or equivalent streaming technology

    - Distributed cache/in memory data grids like Redis, Hazelcast, Ignite, or Memcached

    - Distributed column store databases like Snowflake, Cassandra, or HBase

    - Spark, Flink, Beam, or equivalent streaming data processing frameworks

• Proficient with writing and reviewing Python and other object-oriented language(s) are a plus
• Experience building automations and CICD pipelines (integration, testing, deployment)
• Experience with Kubernetes would be a plus.
• Good understanding of working with distributed teams using Agile: Scrum, Kanban
• Strong interpersonal skills as well as excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Attention to detail and quality, and the ability to work well in and across teams

Roles and Responsibilities

• Develop and manage highly trafficked, highly scalable web properties with PHP5 using Laravel/ZEND CodeIgniter/Yii/Symfony framework.
• Understand the specifications to define system requirements.
• Collaborate and communicate project updates and progress to team members and clients.
• Analyze, design, code, debug, test, document and deploy changes to the system.